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High prevalence of genotypic and phenotypic HIV-1 drug-resistant strains among patients receiving antiretroviral therapy in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) - 15 Apr 2001
Adjé C, Cheingsong R, Roels T H, Maurice C, Djomand G, Verbiest W, Hertogs K, Larder B, Monga B, Peeters M, Eholie S, Bissagene E, Coulibaly M, Respess R, Wiktor S Z, Chorba T, Nkengasong J N
Abstract excerpt
To describe prevalence of antiretroviral (ARV) drug-resistant HIV-1 strains among patients with a history of earlier treatment with ARV drugs in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, we determined mutations that confer HIV-1 ARV drug resistance by sequencing the viral reverse-transcriptase and protease genes derived from plasma viral RNA of 68 individuals consecutively enrolled in the Joint United Nations Program on AIDS Drug...
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